This Is My Brave - The Show with Flourishing Families
Hosted by the Ruderman Family Foundation, Flourishing Families presents This Is My Brave - The Show features the stories of parents of young adult and adult children who live with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Prepare to be inspired by this amazing cast of storytellers!
Hosted by the Ruderman Family Foundation, Flourishing Families presents This Is My Brave - The Show features the stories of parents of young adult and adult children who live with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Prepare to be inspired by this amazing cast of storytellers!
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THIS IS MY BRAVE<br />
RESEARCH<br />
DR. KRISTIN KOSYLUK<br />
Lead Researcher<br />
Kristin Kosyluk is an Assistant Professor of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida in the College<br />
of Behavioral and Community Sciences. She also directs the STigma Action Research (STAR) Lab at USF. <strong>The</strong> STAR Lab<br />
conducts community-engaged research aimed at understanding and addressing the stigma surrounding mental illness<br />
in order to promote recovery among people living <strong>with</strong> mental illness.<br />
Kristin has served as the lead evaluator of <strong>This</strong> <strong>Is</strong> <strong>My</strong> <strong>Brave</strong>’s programming for the past eight years, and she has produced<br />
two College Edition <strong>Show</strong>s at USF. Eliminating the stigma around mental illness in order to promote treatment seeking<br />
and recovery and prevent suicide is Kristin’s passion, fueled by her clinical experiences as well as her own experiences<br />
<strong>with</strong> depression and anxiety and those of friends and loved ones.<br />
When Kristin is not conducting stigma research or teaching the amazing students at USF about recovery and evidencebased<br />
practices, her greatest joy is spending time <strong>with</strong> her husband, David, and six-year-old daughter, Emma. Kristin is<br />
a lover of crafting, especially crochet and dollhouse miniatures.<br />
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